Mac pro 8 core early 2008 mountain lion installed.
I need to clean install Yosemite.
The pendrive does not show when you press alt, at the boot screen.
Nevertheless it shows on configuration startup ...

I deleted a system file on my Mac that made it stop working. When I restart, it just crashes midway and restarts again. If I hold shift to do a safe reboot, it freezes halfway through. When I reboot ...

I purchased mac pro 2 model no# a1186 few days ago with a new Hard drive . Now im trying to install os x from usb.
i made bootable usb through another mac mini machine by formatting it through disk ...

I am completely new to Apple machines. I have got a MacBook Pro. I want to see all available drives on the computer. The computer cannot boot into OS X.
I only know Windows PE Bootable drive. I have ...

Is it possible to create a Mac-bootable thumb drive containing gparted or Parted Magic without installing a full Linux distribution?
I tried several methods like
unetbootin (some blogs suggest this ...

Many searches and tutorials all showed that if you drop an .iso file in Disc Utility and go to Burn it will make a bootable disc but when I do it in Yosemite it will burn a copy of the .iso file. How ...

I just installed the SSD and I cannot detect the SSD in Disk Utilities of the recovery disk. Even trying to restore from time machine backup it cannot find any disk it can restore to. I am restoring ...

Ok so I have been trying all day using all sorts of ISO's that I can find but I run through the process in Boot Camp Assistant ensuring that all three options are selected and I point to my ISO but ...

I'm wanting to create a live usb linux so I can easily access it everytime when I need it without taking up any space.
But with other sources, they say to rEFInd and I did so, however when restarting ...

I've been googling around and I've found several backup programs for Mac like Carbon Copy, SuperDuper and ChronoSync.
They all seem to offer the option to create bootable backups but that's not what I ...

I own a mid-2013 Macbook Air running Mavericks and wish to boot on a USB stick containing a bootable version of DiskWarrior. The problem is DiskWarrior wasn't updated for quite some time and, though ...

I'm on a mac book pro and i have a working bootcamp partition with windows 8, and a damaged mac os x 10.10 beta partition, the problem is that i can not boot with the mac partition, and in order to ...

I would like to be able to create a disk image (that I can transfer via Disk Utility.app to a large USB storage thumb drive) which is a multiboot installer for provisioning various operating systems ...

I have a copy of the Windows XP install disk on my computer in the form of an .iso. I'm trying to install it to a partition using a bootable USB. I need to be able to make a bootable USB under Lion. ...

I have the latest version of OS X Server (Version 3.0.2) downloaded of the App Store and basically I want to create a bootable USB for the installer.
However, looking at it, I'm not able to find the ...

I am running on OS X Mavericks GM and now that Mavericks has finally released, I downloaded it from App Store. I wanted to make a bootable USB of it so I followed This Tutorial but when I tried to run ...

Just bumped into an odd problem with my MacPro4,1 (2009/Nehalem) wherein I cannot boot from USB bootable disks. My various disks are recognized from System Preferences -> Startup Disk, however they ...

I downloaded the Linux USB Image of memtest86 and used dd to get the image on a USB flash drive.
Whenever I used it on an iMac Late 2006 (running SL) or the newest Macbook Air 13'' (running ML) the ...

i have Mac Server and i want to have a full copy of the System.
So i can play around and test new Software and Upgrades before i apply it to the real System.
I am using Parallels and want to create a ...

I'm using OS X 10.5.8., updated from 10.5.2. which I installed from the two installation DVDs that came with my MB404 MacBook.
I recently found my original 10.5.2. installation DVDs, which I thought ...

I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009, It came with two DVDs: Application Install DVD and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Installation DVD.
Since DVDs have a short life, I want to back up these two DVDs (Especially ...

Just recently added an SSD drive replacing the optical drive. Carbon Copy the whole partition and now left with 2 bootable drives. How do I make the old partition no longer bootable? I've changed the ...

I have the Windows 8 consumer preview .iso which I plan to copy to a DVD to use with Boot Camp. Though my question is - when I burn the image to the disk, will I need to make the disk bootable to use ...

I'm trying to install Snow Leopard (a retail version) into my MacBook, but seems like that the MacBook can't find the boot disk over USB.
I guess this is related to the fact that I mounted the .iso ...

I would like to boot BackTrack on my MacBook Pro from a USB drive but it seems impossible. I'm holding the Alt key on boot, but the mac only displays "Macintosh HD", i.e. it doesn't recognize my USB. ...